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Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by tel »

falsdf20293 wrote: post #83
ambition wrote: post #33

A bittorrent plugin for firefox with no UI. e.g. downloading a torrent has the exact same interaction as downloading a file over HTTP. Seeding == leaving it in your downloads list, advanced power user preferences are tucked in an about: page. Bittorrent for the masses.

I had the almost exact same idea, I also wanted to automatically convert any website into a torrent. It would be P2P browsing and the end of slashdotting small websites. Spikes in hits would not bring anyone down. But then I got a job at a biotech startup.

Seems like a neat idea excepting that BitTorrent doesn't support changing content that well afaik.

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by jgr »

I second robots; but more like "waldoes", generic amplification of my human capacities, on a bigger-than-me (backhoe), stronger-than-me (force amplifier to assist my neuromuscular degeneration), or tinyier-than-me (microfabrication) bases. Make them available and plentiful.

A language translation system like Reasoning, Inc's "Refine", but intended to swallow code from ANY language, including it's libraries, factor and globally optimize, and emit code in any other language. With some tool that points out "routine A" is a not quite complete (errors or omissions) implementation of "routine B". Eventually, using the accumulated library of code, produce a goal (constraint) based language that asks interactive questions, to produce new programs.

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Post by andreyf »

falsdf20293 wrote: post #83
ambition wrote: post #33

A bittorrent plugin for firefox with no UI. e.g. downloading a torrent has the exact same interaction as downloading a file over HTTP. Seeding == leaving it in your downloads list, advanced power user preferences are tucked in an about: page. Bittorrent for the masses.

I had the almost exact same idea, I also wanted to automatically convert any website into a torrent. It would be P2P browsing and the end of slashdotting small websites. Spikes in hits would not bring anyone down. But then I got a job at a biotech startup.

Another solution to this idea is FreeNet, but it doesn't seem to be catching on as well as the creators had wished:

http://freenetproject.org/

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by andreyf »

tlrobinson wrote: post #96
kingkongrevenge wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A jump to conclusions mat. There'd be this mat, with various conclusions on it, and you could jump to them.

That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.

I miss the old news.YC :(

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by jkkramer »

Locke wrote: post #21

I'm doing this right now, with a game site devoted to multi-player turn-based strategy games. It's still a small site (as far as the number of players go) and I'm sure it could be monetized, but I doubt it'd make much money right now. Certainly not enough to put it outside the realm of just doing this for fun. The site's Vying Games (vying.org) if you want to check it out. : ))

Nice. Some of your games use a Go board -- are you planning to implement Go itself at some point?

I develop a Go web app myself in my spare time: http://eidogo.com/. It's more for studying and bot-playing than multi-player, though.

I decided that since I'd probably never make more than a pittance off it, I'll just give it all away for free and open the source. At least it makes for a good resume item to show off my JavaScript chops.

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by rokhayakebe »

byrneseyeview wrote: post #31
rokhayakebe wrote: post #24

an virtual programmer ie a software or call it AI that creates software based on my desire. so i will give simple specification and it will turn it into software, i can refine the code, save, go back to previous version....

I think this describes every programming language, for some value of 'simple'.

show me a software that can turn "go into my facebook account and pull the pictures that are tagged fun" into a working application. Think what natural language does for search. i want the same thing for programing.
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